Kara Frederick

Empowering renewables through thermal energy storage. MGA Thermal’s mission is to revolutionise the world’s renewable energy systems by developing novel materials, designing innovative technologies and delivering thermal energy storage solutions. Our core technology is a newly invented type of thermal storage material, Miscibility Gap Alloys (MGA). These alloys can store a huge amount of energy as heat, in a safe and easy to use way. In our storage solutions, modular blocks of MGA are stacked into insulated storage tanks, which can store energy for use in a range of applications – improving the electrical grid’s stability, residential and commercial space heating, industrial process/waste heat, and even electric vehicles. Our first focus though, is enabling intermittent renewable energy sources such as the sun and wind, to provide base load electricity to the grid. Modular blocks of MGA are able to be stacked and scaled into thermal energy storage systems - storing hundreds to millions of kilowatt hours of energy.

InDebted is changing the world of consumer debt recovery for good.  Our philosophy understands that while consumer expectations have changed, traditional debt collection hasn’t. From accessing credit to buying new shoes, todays consumers opt for transactions that are frictionless, flexible and digital-first.  Meanwhile, the traditional debt collection industry hasnt evolved from outdated communication methods, intrusive tactics, and pressuring experiences. This results in low collections, poor customer engagement, and high compliance and reputational risk.  At InDebted, we’re changing the experience of being in debt, by creating a better way for businesses to support consumers through it. Our Collect product delivers up to 40% increased recovery performance, while being the world’s highest rated debt collection solution for customer experience.  Offering the only multi-market compliant and scalable solution for global or enterprise businesses, InDebted is operational in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. InDebted was founded in Australia in 2016 by our CEO, Josh Foreman. Fast forward to today, and InDebted has completed four funding rounds totalling $70+ million AUD, we’ve grown to a team of over 200 people living and working in 11 countries around the world.

At Basiq, our vision is Making Finance Easy. Finance is complex and it can be hard for consumers to make informed financial decisions. We see a world where consumers are empowered to make smarter financial decisions and to engage with their finances in new and unique ways. Basiq enables this by providing an Open Finance API platform for businesses to build innovative financial solutions. Our partners include some of the fastest-growing Fintechs and banks in the region. As the building blocks of financial services, the platform facilitates the relationship between businesses and consumers by enabling access to consented financial data and providing payments services. Basiq is part of the Cuscal Group.

Jekara Group is an early-stage venture capital firm, founded by Australias most successful cleantech partnership. The partners imagined, designed, funded, scaled globally, and produced cash-on-cash VC returns in a multi-year journey building Australia’s greatest global cleantech success story in recent memory. Jekara has an unrivalled competitive advantage and a decade of iterative learnings as partners to help the next wave of cleantech founders scale from an idea to global reality. 

Empowering renewables through thermal energy storage. MGA Thermal’s mission is to revolutionise the world’s renewable energy systems by developing novel materials, designing innovative technologies and delivering thermal energy storage solutions. Our core technology is a newly invented type of thermal storage material, Miscibility Gap Alloys (MGA). These alloys can store a huge amount of energy as heat, in a safe and easy to use way. In our storage solutions, modular blocks of MGA are stacked into insulated storage tanks, which can store energy for use in a range of applications – improving the electrical grid’s stability, residential and commercial space heating, industrial process/waste heat, and even electric vehicles. Our first focus though, is enabling intermittent renewable energy sources such as the sun and wind, to provide base load electricity to the grid. Modular blocks of MGA are able to be stacked and scaled into thermal energy storage systems - storing hundreds to millions of kilowatt hours of energy.

Springboard accelerates the growth of entrepreneurial companies led by women through access to essential resources and a global community of experts. We are a leading network of influencers, investors, and innovators dedicated to building high-growth companies led by women who are transforming industries. The measure of our success is in the results. Since we started in 2000, 950+ Springboard portfolio companies have created more than $76B in value, 28 IPOs, and 10 unicorns.

Reinventure is an independent Venture Capital firm with a strong corporate partnership with Westpac. We recently announced our second $50m fund for investment in early stage ventures We invest for the long term, and we put our ventures first. Once we invest, our job is to unlock maximum synergy value between our ventures and our largest investor, Westpac. Business Plans / IM / Pitches: info@reinventure.com.au